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Huh,I always thought of FSF/GNU as retirement homes for ancient projects more than code more than active coding. I have contributed code to ASF but I don't even know where to look for the repos and bug trackers. But grep and emacs feet occasional releases, so maybe my observation is of the effect, not the intent.
Thank you for your detailed insight, and for the examples too!
Counterpoint on progressive JPEG [1]:

> Some people like interlaced or "progressive" images, which load gradually. The theory behind these formats is that the user can at least look at a fuzzy full-size proxy for the image while all the bits are loading. In practice, the user is forced to look at a fuzzy full-size proxy for the image while all the bits are loading. Is it done? Well, it looks kind of fuzzy. Oh wait, the top of the image seems to be getting a little more detail. Maybe it is done now. It is still kind of fuzzy, though. Maybe the photographer wasn't using a tripod. Oh wait, it seems to be clearing up now ...

[1]: http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/images
Don't think of the F18 computers in isolation- think about doing stream processing with a network of them. You probably can't fit your application on one F18, but you could easily fit one or two functions in 64 words, especially given that a single machine word can contain up to four instructions.
Your two paragraphs seem to contradict each other.
Did I miss the part where this article gets around to saying anything?
I don't think it's necessarily a bad signal. Some people are more productive when they force themselves to devote N hours of time to a particular topic.

I do it myself sometimes - I decide I'll devote at least 4 hours to $BORING_BUT_NECESSARY_AND_UNENDING_TASK, and then do it and get it done. At my current job, this was (until very recently) searching our logs for slow queries and fixing them.

Different people have different productivity strategies. Being "in the zone" is an effective one, but it's hardly the only one.
Why? This sounds like how EC2/Heroku/AppEngine/Lithium work
In principle, duplicating results is a good thing, it's what prevents fraud. The incentives are wrong here, and it isn't proper academic conduct, but it's still valuable science.
On EC2 you don't even have cost savings from multi-tenant, because EC2 costs more than dedicated hosting.

So let's consider the logic of the proposition instead of particular companies.

The benefits of multi-tenant come from not having to pay to dedicate a resource. We can both use it and we each only pay a fraction of the cost. However, there is trouble if we both try to use it at the same time.

The benefits of SLA or any kind of quality of service guarantee come from having a dedicated resource.
You know that you can always use it because I (or anyone else) can never use it.

These two goals are not compatible.
I have no clue what that is, but if it's possible it's definitely something we could look into. The projects open source, so any contributions are welcomed!
I've always thought it's 87x as in 'eighty seven times' - the other way around makes it seem like a long lost Intel instruction set.
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So why stop at x2, if you want future proof why not store your images at x10 just in case.
Isn't it more of a browser problem if they got crappy upsampler.
Replace your quotation with a complete sentence, or least a grammatical phrase, if you want to be understood.
I agree that it should work as you describe. But there's always a danger of courts making a broad ruling. The norm seems to be for content purveyors to push for a broad ruling, as it's in their business interest.

Edit: the particulars of the case in the article are not so interesting to me, excepting how it might impact more legitimate uses of 1st sale. I do not support the defendant's actions.
You need good skits if you run a smoke and mirrors operation.
On web sized progressive, the loading is over quickly and the benefit is an immediate placeholder on even slower connections instead of whitespace.

But the real reason is it also produces smaller file sizes.
My guess would be that during launch and reentry the astronauts are wearing pressure suits that include a backpack, are custom fitted and probably provide padding. In orbit theres no need for padding on the seats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Crew_Escape_Suit
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That looks like it's about round-the-clock shifts for factory workers. I can think of a lot of differences between that and, say, computer programmers that might render the conclusion less relevant.

For example, I don't know any software companies in the world that build software with 3 8-hour shifts of workers.
how does this translate into something like ImageMagick ? I mean, if I have users uploading large (>10mb) images which I want to transform into web-optimized images, is there a server-side pipeline that would give the most meaningful results ?
Two things when doing esimates, the engineering muliplier factor and fully understanding the task multiplier.

If you have somebody who knows the task well and knows exactly what do to then the task muiltiplier is 1x, engineering multiplier is usualy always 3x, some unwritten rule. If the person is not fully aware of what is needed to do the task exactly but near enough then you increase the tast multiplier. Combining the pair without any unit shifting for me works well. I'm sure others will explain why the engineering factor is never 1x.

It is also worth noting that any engineers or programmers estimate time is for the consumtion of you line manger and internal and not customer directly presented. Reason being is that managers will either increase that more or come back to you as to why it is so long.

Now manager will increase things as they will want to increase company profit and what might be a 5 minute change for a programmer, could be something that can be charged as a 50 hour change. There are situations were a 50 hour change from a customers perspective is only a 5 minute change and it is the managers role to adresss and educate were needed and juggle and balance tasks and costs with others.

Saying all that if your a programmer and dealing directly with teh customer with quotes, then you will learn your own time stretching approach multiplier that works for you and your clients. Just remember egos can be costly if you charge for 5 hours something that takes longer in the end, learn from it as we all do, every now and then.
Law I think is a field with unique responsibilities for their members to stay current and keep learning, things do change fast and you have to keep up to stay effective.

Paradigm shifts every 10 years? Not really. COBOL to Python ain't no paradigm shift.
Honestly that is a stupid argument -- if you don't have time to understand it the first time, you don't have time to come back when everything is falling apart.
> But there's no reason for Dropbox not to do direct LAN syncing, and no reason for AeroFS not to offer infinite versioning.

Really, no reason? None at all?

For "infinite versioning", it's obvious - there's no upper bound on the amount of data the server has to store. Storage space costs money.

As for no direct LAN syncing, someone's already mentioned the reason - consistency. Syncing is already a hard problem, and it's dangerous to allow more things to go wrong because the clients synced but the server didn't receive all the data.
And you may think it's trivial, but treating employees like inmates in a prison harms productivity. (Gee, my left sift key still works, but right shift is broken, do I want to argue with my manager about whose fault is was and make he and I both go through the paperwork for justifying a purchase over my standard allocation? I mean, if I waste his time with his, that costs money at his high salary, and won't ensure me to him...")
...and a lot more anecdotal 'evidence'. That article for instance - seems to be a guy with an axe to grind - he's founder of the Science Exchange, a web company with services to sell. By writing a scare story on irreproducible results hes drumming up business. How does that distinguish him from Amgen etc?

I'm not trying to be mean, just mentioning its very easy to write opinion that appears as science and gets misinterpreted or given too much weight. The posting about the Decline Effect says it better.
The real problem is that those behemonths don't want to change (when change is necessary) and they can drag on for years, slowing the rest of society down with them.
I wouldn't worry about it.

The Java to be disabling is the Java browser plugin, which allows un-trusted web sites to run applets in a sandbox on your machine. As you know, there have been a lot of issues with Java sandboxing.

However, AeroFS runs locally (as far as I understand, I don't have an invite) so should be fine as long as you trust the provenance of the code.
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The argument over a 50cent bag of potato chips contraindicates your conclusion.
There's a rather irritating trend to treat the EU and Europe as the same thing (they aren't), and to treat the EU as if it's a country. While yes, some things are similar across the EU because of legislation, there are still significant differences between different countries.
This is exactly what I've been looking for. Sorry it hasn't gotten more attention! I've seen enough versions of the git-powered statically-generated blog. Something with a simple admin interface (so I really can use it from anywhere) and built on the tools I'm using right now, is perfect. Thanks, I will absolutely be adopting this for my own site.
Yes, they wore ACES suits[1], which are partially pressurised.

Of course, at launch they wouldn't be sitting on the seats at all, they'd be lying on them.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Crew_Escape_Suit
SpaceX may have speculatively designed the Dragon in advance of NASA's resupply program (though I doubt it: the program was announced only one year after the Dragon began design, and two years after Columbia, when it was clear the Shuttle was toast). My point is simply that this is not the first foray of for profit enterprise into the space market. If you count the satellite market, then SpaceX is even less novel, as other companies (Orbital Sciences) have been servicing this market for 20 years. That said, their designs may be quite novel, even revolutionary; we'll see.
You are trolling, right?

Einstein's desk was this messy :-)
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Interesting! I will evaluate this for my online board game that I am remaking in this moment but it does look good :)
Basically, they're saying you're holding the phone wrong (again), in a less harsh tone.
You mean like on the teeth and in the eyes in the third image set?
Not to beat a dead horse, but the common trick of including the EULA in the product is non-enforceable,right? The company's terms are void. Something about 'last shot fired' contracts and the Uniform Commercial Code.
Yes!

Dear Businesses, it is not your fancy code & tech specs that make you special, it is your business data. Pay attention to your data and the people who create value with it.

I'm always disappointed by enterprise customers who can talk for days about their endlessly complex systems and their fantastic dreams of building and customizing exotic new & infinitely flexible applications, and yet these same people are completely unable to answer the most basic questions about how many, how often, and how value is created. When pressed, they call some poor intern to wrestle with SAP for a few weeks in attempt to answer what should be routine business questions.

Then come the horrors of talking to the people who are forced to use these systems and witnessing the heroics required to get them to work for the business. And that's just the folks who haven't given up entirely and instead spend their days with a list in Excel.
That's not a solution, it's a design tradeoff. Dropbox's servers are the "truth", and the software's clear goal is to get a copy on the servers. There are many reasons for this--weird conflicts, inconsistencies, and so on--that are much harder to resolve than if there is a copy on the servers.

Once that happens, other clients will ask to download from the servers, notice that it's on the LAN already, and take it from there. I bet if you install a new client on the same LAN, or share a folder between clients on the LAN, or add a folder to selective sync, once the files are already there... it will be a competitive speed.
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Now you must be trolling. Look up the M&M story on snopes, and comeback when you have realized that you got the story completely backwards. Office staff "Running a tight (cheap) ship" against the wishes of the professionals kills people in the rock concert businesses.
Re: how old the tech is - about ten years ago NASA was buying old computing equipment in bulk to scavenge the 8086 chips, which were used for shuttle support gear:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/us/for-parts-nasa-boldly-g...
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As someone else pointed out from looking at your screenshot - you're not using 'Save for Web'.

How much of your critique still applies to 'Save for web'?

Nobody (should) be using the normal save dialog for web images so I'm not sure how much of what you say remains valid.
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Progressive JPEGs are not smaller. They contain the same data, just rearranged. You can losslessly transform a progressive JPEG into a baseline JPEG and vice versa, without recompressing it. The jpegtran tool, included with the standard JPEG library, can do this.
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There is some data from the games industry, which I would say applies to knowledge workers: http://www.lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-pres... (blog post from 2008 with linked presentation pdf/ppt)
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Surely this works because the compression algorithm can find more predictability in an image before its resolution is reduced. You see this affect a lot when you are trying to get very high compression levels. However, it is difficult to prove exactly what is the best settings without actively trying different configurations.
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Wasn't there a news entry some weeks ago where a startup investor made quite contradictory points? That you should keep your eyes open for startups which don't have a clear "message" / punch line? Because these are the ones with the possibly most innovative (but yet not fixed) ideas that are often overlooked by other investors?
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Not sure what meaningful conclusions you can draw from this. In my experience what makes a post popular is something like 50% content, 25% title and 25% timing. That's a lot of variance, I imagine with different wording and/or timing of the submissions your results might have been dramatically different. I've definitely seen posts that go nowhere the first day but go but the top of the front-page when it's re-posted verbatim or slightly reworded by someone else.
"That article for instance - seems to be a guy with an axe to grind"

I don't see anything in the article to indicate this, and also the studies he's citing weren't even written by him. And plus it's not like he's the only one to say this, e.g.:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damne...

I realize that he also has a financial conflict of interest. The difference is that A) he's properly disclosed his conflict of interest and B) he isn't wrong.
Using the same multipliers for everyone is bound to be sub-optimal, due to Parkinson's law.
Not making these lists is LA, which I like. Specifically West Side. Santa Monica is great, and easily best weather of any of these listed. Good nightlife in Hollywood. Better startup scene than Seattle (at least relative to 2 years ago, haven't checked out Seattle startups in a while). Also, don't underestimate the value of a well-connected airport. If you're not in the bay or NYC, you'll have to travel a lot if you're connected. LAX is remarkably accessible from the West Side, and has flights to everywhere leaving in 2 hours. Seattle has one of the least accessible and least connected airports. Portland would be worse. I hear good things about Austin.
I welcome the day when this practice, or something similar, catches on in India. Almost every Indian politician has a criminal record, is a thief who siphons money into tax shelters, and does all of this with impunity. Sadly, this trickles down to all the government employees, cops included. This kind of citizen action will expose the crooks for their wrongs and create accountability. Shame is a powerful motivator for change...
I would say the conclusion is pretty much what you said. 50% content, 40% title and 10% timing makes a successful post. (obviously for break news/trending events timing is everything - my focus was on content that could be leveraged at any time)
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1. Have a career plan, but don’t let it stifle you

2. Innovate whether they like it or not

3. Take mentorship seriously

4. Learn from everyone around you

5. Tolerate idiosyncracy

6. Personal touches matter
The same applies, IMO, to India and China, both having twice the population of Europe.
A quote: "Entrepreneur: I just wanted to touch base with you and see if you are taking on new startups right now."

"Me: Can you send me a paragraph and I’ll tell you if it’s something we’d be interested in."

"Entrepreneur: It’s difficult to accurately describe the company, myself, and everything else in a single paragraph. To write something so small but somehow include every important aspect is near impossible, if not impossible. My company is too complex to be described in a single paragraph."

A recipe for failure. This touches on multiple issues, the most important of which is an economy of expression.

Anyone can say his project is too complex for mere mortals to grasp, including people who don't have anything worth describing. But as Einstein said, “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

Yesterday I saw an article entitled something like "90 things I learned while launching startups." After I got done laughing, I replied that if the author wanted people to read what he had to say, that was about 80 things too many, that he needed to prioritize, but to put it mildly, this wasn't welcome advice.
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I don't know about India, but it's a single country. So is China, but in effect it isn't, because of Hong Kong and Macao having quite different laws.
I don't think Chicago is a great place to move to in anticipation of finding a job at a startup. It is, on the other hand, a fantastic place to move to to start one.
Well, yes, because my ISP only offers static IPs for business contracts, which are more expensive overall, and my VPS only costs $2.3/month (and it doubles as a web server, hosting my personal landing page and an instance of Tiny Tiny RSS).
Are you aware that slot machines are netorkd and more like lottery tickets than dice? It would be impossible for a slot machine network to lose more than the tiny outlay if its first few payouts ever were jackpots.
If I had a penny for every linkbait title with profanity included...
My productivity actually took a measurable hit after I switched from one platform/framework to another. The first one was a dream to work with, everything was documented, the framework and 3rd party APIs were well maintained and the whole community was very serious about maintaining a certain standard of quality.

The second platform (the one I have to work with now) is crappy, slow, most IDEs are shit, nothing is documented properly, the community is in the state of total disarray etc. You probably know what platform I'm talking about.

Just going back to my old platform (if my workplace allowed me to) would probably increase my productivity by at least 50%.
Vegas decorates casinos and creates movies and books with beautiful wealthy patrons. Zynga can't do that until virtual reality consumes us.
You say show me the evidence for A/B testing and then state "Old people with an iPad3 won't see the difference between a non retina and a retina website." where is your evidence?

Anyone old or young that cares about speed of browsing will be running the latest browser, with good upscaling...

Retina isn't a scam, however putting an SEO spin on the need to even consider preparing for the future is
Yeah, I'm in the same boat, and I can't stand startups that advertise for unpaid internships (which is what this would be). My guess is that they are either totally unaware, or deliberately flaunting the laws against unpaid internships (where the intern is getting paid nothing for doing substantive work). I've seen ads like this all the time on craigslist. Pretty much the only people who can afford to apply are wealthy kids who just graduated, need experience, and can have mom and dad pay the bills. Not paying interns makes me think even less of startup culture than I already do.
The slot machine is constantly inventing and deploying new games as well, both in play style and art assets. You are fooling yourself if you think Zybga isn't staff with scholars of the slot machine industrym
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It's tragic that almost all of the benefits of a unified currency are becoming easily replicated by technological solutions just as all the problems of currency union without fiscal union have come to haunt the Eurozone.
I think in any potential business venture the team is so critical that I'd go out to people I know to help, even for early prototyping. Admittedly I might not be your target demographic because I can code myself.
That's odd, I've never had a problem with FB. Does the performance get hit right when the page loads, or only when you press a certain command?
Why should anyone invest in you, when you can't figure out Gmail?
Larger images saved as pjpegs tend to be slightly smaller than a standard jpeg.

http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2008/12/05/imageopt-4/
But how is zynga less fun than a slot machine? Zynga isn't locking people in, they just tap into their brains. Which is what "fun" does. To say it is worth less than a high stakes pac man tournamnt is a moral judgment and gets into touchy questions of free will
x87 is the original FPU instruction set of the x86 family, so time to be confused again. But now you can be .75 confused instead of 1 confused.
I'm switching from Consolas to Source Code Pro Font!This font works in Emacs on Mac OS X!

Let the fixed width font war begin. Apple Vs. Microsoft vs. Adobe.
You're doing it wrong then. PNG8 is the same in both products. PNG24 isn't optimized in Adobe products. You need to run it through a PNG optimizer.
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The Steve Blank / Lean Startup fan club here would disagree with you.
SourceCodePro is too wide or has too much horizontal spacing for me.

DejaVu Sans Mono can be better in some environments http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/

I also discovered I like the new Ubuntu Mono http://font.ubuntu.com/

except it has too much vertical spacing, but I hope to find a way to easily edit that someday